Monday, November 28, 2011

I'm just popping in to note that there are two great comics which just issued rare updates, and you should know about both of them.

The first is Moe, a comic I love that has not managed to break into the realm of superpopular webcomics, but it is still great! The newest comic just came out, and it's the first update we've had since August (and that, in turn, was the first update since May). Anyway, go, enjoy it, tell the author how much you love it, read the archives if you haven't yet, etc. Or you can read an interview with the author I did on that website I used to run.

The other comic to do much the same is Achewood, which is in fact extremely popular, but had apparently become too much for its author to keep up with, which is why he didn't post any new comics for nearly nine months. But now he has! Is it a sign of things to come? Goodness I hope so. I hope he can at least finish this story. He wouldn't start a story and not finish it, right? RIGHT?

12:02/03, that sounds like "WE'RE KINDA LIKE A GANG UNITED BY OUR FOLLOWING OF THIS STRIP AND THE HUMOROUS THEMES DEVELOPED THEREIN" which is one step away from "THE JOKE IS FUNNY YOU JUST HAVE TO READ THE 50 PAGE EXPLANATION" which is gay.

Assuming an intelligent audience, meaninglessness (or "quirkiness") out of context betrays an author lacking in technical skill. I can pick up any good creative work from a scientific paper in my field to a piece of classical fiction and gain some appreciation from a randomly selected paragraph or illustration. There is no part lacking in substance - hard as it may be to discern - and there is no part lacking in style.

Steve I guess you fail at Encyclopedia Dramatica, which isn't that bad I guess.

Achewood you fail at getting me to read you, because I only smiled once in the first fifty or so strips and even though you look like you might get more interesting later on, you're really ugly and your site is really ugly and FUCK that subscriber content noise man.

I have never understood your fascination with achewood, carl. I read about 300 comics and... I still wasn't enjoying it more than the occasional "okay, heh". I don't really think the "point of appreciation" should be higher than 300 comics, if it exists and you are not in fact delusional. =\

But then again, I don't own two websites about webcomicking, so what do I know (nothing, that is what).

also i'm pretty sure anon411 is like 8 y.o., so he knows even less than me (I think I could convince you I am at least 16 maybe?)

You know what I hate? I hate when people try to pretend like they're educated and intelligent by referring to Schrodinger's Cat, as if every newfag and his grandma hasn't heard of it. And to make it worse, they usually don't really even know what it means, or that Schrodinger was being facetious when he came up with it.

In all seriousness, I welcome a little positivity. So Carl, thanks for posting. Let's all give a shout-out to our favourite comics.

My favourites? Gunnerkrigg Court, The Meek and Dr McNinja are all up there. But personally I can't give enough praise to Everblue for it's lovable characters, beautiful artwork and the start of a great storyline. I think more people should know about it.

There's a reason why we don't let dumb shit undergrads into labs and accelerator tunnels without adult supervision.Those rooms just aren't left unlocked. And I know you worked at NASA for a summer but if you're an undergraduate student (and you probably are if you live in a dorm with a roommate)then there's no way in hell you should be calling yourself a scientist.

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Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.

I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.

Here is a comic about me that Ann made. It is my favorite thing in the world.

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